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"With the Deprez reports on Europol, we are floundering in complete incoherence. Just now we saw the Spanish and Belgian Governments – though they are not regarded as moderately federalist – being severely criticised by the European Parliament for their lack of Community feeling. In fact they were unfortunate enough to try to comply with the texts which place Europol in the area of inter-governmental relationships. In some ways it was a kind of fratricidal struggle between federalist lawyers and federalist ideologists.
In this second Deprez report, we see the Council, which is quite rightly disputing any Parliamentary power over the Europol budget (which is fed directly by Member States’ contributions) coming to consult Parliament of its own accord on a very minor financial issue, a possible increase in the salaries of the officials of that body. We abstained because we believe that the European Parliament has no competence here.
All this shows that the status of Europol should be clarified and stabilised. In our opinion, it should not fall under the inter-governmental pillar in the strict sense of the word, nor under the Community pillar, but under an inter-parliamentary pillar, yet to be created, where the national parliaments would work as a network. In this context, Europol would be monitored, in addition to the present controls, by an assembly composed of representatives of the national parliaments."@en1
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